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Mawaddah
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Well I dont get it? It's not like the classes are compulsory for them to attend anyway? except for the Sheikhs classes which are only 3 times a day, if they found the classes to rigorous then they could have dropped some right?
I didn't find it that way, I thought it was just wonderful.
Can't wait to go back!
im afraid sister, that it does not work like that. in yemen, specifically in dammaj, if you do not master the topic of study, you simply do not move to the next level.
when one goes to yemen, one has to realize that it is an entire transformation between the life of this world, to the life of ashaabul-hadeeth of the past. the student merely gets 4 hours or 5 hours of sleep at most.
it is a drilling of the livihood of the ashaabul-hadeeth for the student. If the person going there did not have the desire to do that in seeking knowledge, then he is not a taalibul-ilm
Imam adh-dhahabee says in this regard about the student of knowledge, that if he is not willing to ......(and he mentions a load of incredible feats) then his seeking knowledge is a waste of time.
in other words, if your not prepared to adorn your knowledge with full worship, and little sleep, and continual hunger, and thorough physical hardship of sitting and remaining still, studying in drill mode, and having the desire to want to BREAK YOUR HEAD at arriving at a sunni conclusion for the explanations of the religion, then your seeking knowledge is useless from the get go.
Imaam ash-Shafi'ee use to contemplate on a single hadeeth ALL NIGHT to try to find a proper explanation of that hadeeth.
Ibn Taymiyah, he used to get upset and virtually criminalize himself in frustration (as if beating your own head type of mentality) if he did not break the meaning of a text, and he would cry to Allah in begging Him until Allah facilitated to him its wisdom.
if one does not feel the need to do this to himself, nor does he desire to do so, then let him not seek knowledge at all, and let him to get the basic knowledge of the religion (as recieving basic knowledge is mandatory on all, whether student or not)
ANd this is the manhaj of the student, to not only endure these trials, BUT TO WANT to go through these trials.
that is because the one who is merely willing to endure these trials is lesser than the one who wishes to go throuh t hem for the sake of Allah in attainin knowledge, for he is higher in satus in this regard, which means it is more likely that his knowledge will be more beneficial than the one who is merely willing to endure them. So how about the one who does not even wish to endure these trials, he is even less then the one who will merely endure these trials.
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